Diana Mei-Ning Chien and John Patrick Casey Jr. were married Sept. 8 at Hampshire House, an events space in Boston. Emily Garcia, a friend of the bride and an episcopal minister, officiated.
The bride, 30, and the groom, 32, met at M.I.T., from which each received a Ph.D., she in microbiology and he in biological engineering. Both were National Science Foundation graduate research fellows there and she was also an M.I.T. energy fellow.
Ms. Chien works in Cambridge, Mass., as the program manager of the communication lab at M.I.T. She graduated cum laude from Princeton. The bride is also a poet; her work has been published by Tin House and Boulevard, among other publications.
She is the daughter of Fu-Li Betty Chien and Anthony H. Chien of Holmdel, N.J. Her father works in Murray Hill, N.J., as an engineering director for Nokia, the telecommunications company. Her mother retired as a system engineer at Avaya, a communications technology company.
Mr. Casey works in Cambridge as a senior associate at Flagship Pioneering, a venture capital firm. He graduated from Louisiana State University.
He is the son of Katherine C. Casey and John Patrick Casey of Lafayette, La.
His father is the director of corporate operations at Dupré Logistics, a transportation and logistics provider in Lafayette.
